A Strong Spirit Will Sustain You
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Read the verse one more time. “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance.” Why would you
need to do that? What if you don’t do that? What if you don’t watch what’s going into you or
what’s not going into you, and you let your heart and your spirit get into bad shape? He said,
“Guard it.” The Amplified Bible brings it out. “Above all that you guard…” Your heart is the
most important part of you and what you are. It’s more important than your mind. It’s more
important than your body. It’s more important than any other part of your being. You are a spirit,
you have a mind, and you are in a body. Well, where does that life come from? It comes out of
your heart, out of your spirit. “Out of it flow the springs of life.”
The only reason your eyelids are moving and your heart is beating is because you’re in your
body. You’re not a body, you’re
in
a body. You’re not just a brain, you
have
a brain. You’re not
just a mind, you
have
a mind. You are a spirit. Spirits need spirit food. Spirits need to be fed and
nourished. How can you make your spirit strong? Do you see the importance of a strong spirit? If
you do, you’re going to want to know the answer to that question. What’s going to get you
through something that’s trying to tear your body apart? Something that’s chewing up your
organs and spitting them out? Something that’s destroying your blood? Do you understand that
these diseases are mean? They’re devilish. They’ll chew your insides. They’ll destroy you if they
can. Is there anything stronger than these diseases trying to destroy you? Yes! There’s the life of
God. It’s stronger than this stuff. It’s stronger than what drugs do to your system. If you take
enough drugs long enough, the very cells of your being cry out for them and demand them. Is
there something stronger than that chemical? Is there something stronger than nicotine, alcohol,
crack, heroin, or cocaine? Is there anything stronger than that? Yes! It’s the same power that
makes the sun shine. It’s the same power that keeps gravity going and makes your heart beat
again. That power is way more than enough to overcome the craving or the disease.
I learned this some years ago. I had the privilege of beginning, in the first days of my ministry, in
Brother Kenneth Hagin’s ministry in the Healing School. That’s what I did day after day—
worked to help people to get healed.
People would come in, and they had been given up to die. They looked and felt terrible, and we
were trying to get them healed. So I was working, trying to know what I could do to get the body
changed. I’m not a doctor or a surgeon or a pharmacist. I don’t know about drugs. You see, the
whole medical field is working on the body from the outside. That’s all they know. Physical
affects physical. It took me a little while to see that wasn’t my job. I’m not trained in medicine.
I’m not trained in surgery. That’s not my job. What is my job? My job is to begin to work with
the Lord to get them built up on the inside because divine healing is healing from the inside.
When God heals you, where is He? He’s already inside of you, isn’t He? You say, “Well, God
healed me.” Where is He? He’s inside of you. His Spirit is already in your spirit, so His life is
already in you. (Ephesians 3:16)
Say this out loud:
“I’ve got the life of God in me.”
That “life of God” has been stronger in you at some times than at other times in your life, and
that affects your spirit and your body. So how do you get your spirit built up if you’ve let it
become weak? First Timothy 4:6 says, “If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things,
thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good
